7th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment

The 7th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment was a Union Army infantry regiment which was active from 15 June 1861 to 5 July 1864. It was formed in Taunton, Massachusetts at the start of the American Civil War in 1861, and it built Fort Stevens in Washington DC in 1862. On 11 March 1862, the 7th Massachusetts left Fort Stevens and was assigned to the Army of the Potomac, fighting in the Peninsula Campaign. On 31 August, the regiment was shipped to northern Virginia, and it later fought at the Battle of Fredericksburg. In the 1863 Battle of Chancellorsville, it suffered heavy losses while fighting for Marye's and Salem Heights near Fredericksburg, and it participated in the capture of Rappahannock Station and in the Mine Run Campaign later that same year. The regiment fought in the Overland Campaign of 1864 and was disbanded after the Battle of Cold Harbor, its term of service having expired.